Gallium Standalone
Gallium Standalone is a cloud-managed bare-metal hypervisor. Install it on your own server hardware, then manage everything — virtual machines, networking, storage, and backups — from the Gallium Console. You get the performance and control of on-premises infrastructure with the convenience of cloud-based management.
Why Gallium Standalone
Gallium Standalone is the full-featured hypervisor in the Gallium platform, purpose-built for dense single-server deployments. It dedicates more system resources to platform services, giving you access to advanced capabilities like multiple storage locations, hardware passthrough, backup integration, and comprehensive Windows VM tooling.
If you're running production workloads on a single powerful server and need the complete feature set, Standalone is the right choice.
Feature Highlights
Multiple Disk Pools — Organize VM storage across multiple drives and locations on your server. Separate your system disk from production workloads, designate default and template pools, and scale storage as your needs grow. See Disk Pools.
PCI & USB Device Passthrough — Give virtual machines direct access to physical hardware such as GPUs, storage controllers, and USB peripherals. Passthrough enables near-native performance for workloads that depend on specialized devices.
Backup Integration — Protect your virtual machines with native support for Veeam Kasten and Gallium Backup. Integrate Standalone into your existing backup strategy without additional agents or complex configuration.
Windows VM Provisioning Tools — Deploy Windows virtual machines with streamlined provisioning that handles drivers and unattended installation, reducing setup time and manual steps.
Networking with Failover — Build resilient network configurations using adapter groups with active/standby failover, VLAN tagging, and flexible network-to-VM mapping. See Networking.
Cloud Management — Monitor and manage your hypervisor and all its workloads from the Gallium Console. Access your server from anywhere without VPN tunnels or direct network access.
Getting Started
Follow these steps to go from bare hardware to running virtual machines:
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Install Gallium Standalone — Download the installer from the Gallium Console and boot your server from it. The guided installer walks you through disk selection and initial configuration. See Booting the Installer.
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Configure Networking — Create adapter groups from your server's physical NICs and set up networks for your VMs to connect to. See Networking Overview.
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Set Up Disk Pools — Configure storage pools for your virtual machine disks. The installer creates a system pool automatically — add additional pools on dedicated drives for production workloads. See Disk Pools Overview.
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Deploy Virtual Machines — Create VMs from templates in the Gallium template library, or build your own from ISO images. See Virtual Machines Overview.
Choosing Between Standalone and Edge
Gallium offers two hypervisor products to fit different deployment scenarios:
| Standalone | Edge | |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Dense single-server deployments | Lightweight or distributed deployments |
| Feature set | Full — disk pools, passthrough, backup integration, Windows provisioning | Streamlined essentials |
| System resources | 24 GB reserved for platform services | 4 GB reserved for platform services |
| Use case | Production servers with demanding workloads | Remote sites, edge locations, or resource-constrained hardware |
Both products are managed through the Gallium Console and share the same template library. Choose Standalone when you need the full feature set on capable hardware; choose Edge when you want a lean hypervisor with a minimal footprint.